Tess Wilson

Tess Wilson is a LYNCS Outreach Librarian at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, where she encourages community collaboration and conversation. She is passionate about issues of intellectual freedom, data rights, and online privacy. To that end, she conducted research with the Youth Data Literacy Project, served as a Civic Information Services intern under the Beyond Big Data grant, and is a regular contributor to ALA’s YALSA and OIF blogs. She was a 2018 ALA Emerging Leader and a member of the Library Freedom Institute's inaugural cohort.

"When I talk about open data, I talk about opportunity and agency — the opportunity to investigate and the agency to disrupt," writes Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh's Tess Wilson. "And this becomes especially vital when we consider who the public library serves."